2015 Leadership in History Awards Winners Listed by State Michael Kammen Award Lombard Historical Society, Lombard, IL The Albert B. Corey Award Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum, Vashon Island, WA Canada Name: Centre d'histoire de Montréal Nomination: for the exhibit Scandal! Vice, Crime, and Morality in Montréal, 1940-1960 This nomination is also the recipient of a HIP (History in Progress) Award. Alabama Name: Alabama Department of Archives and History Nomination: for the exhibit Alabama Voices California Name: Karen Holmes and Sherrie Smith-Ferri Nomination: for the publication Days of Grace: California Artist Grace Hudson in Hawaii Colorado Name: Telluride Historical Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Voices of Wartime: Telluride During World War II Name: History Colorado Nomination: for The RACE Project at History Colorado Connecticut Name: Wethersfield Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Castle on the Cove: the Connecticut State Prison and Wethersfield Name: Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Connecticut College, and Stephen Fan Nomination: for the exhibit, forum, and publication SubUrbanisms: Casino Company Town/China Town Name: Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea Nomination: for the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan District of Columbia Name: President Lincoln s Cottage Nomination: for the Visitor Experience Re-Vision
Georgia Name: Georgia Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration-Georgia Division, and New South Associates, Inc. Nomination: for the project Abercorn Archaeology: African American History in the Shadow of the Oak Iowa Name: State Historical Museum of Iowa Nomination: for the exhibit Riding Through History Name: State Historical Museum of Iowa Nomination: for the Community Based Learning Program Idaho Name: Keith Petersen Nomination: for recognition and appreciation for his outstanding dedication to promoting and preserving Idaho s history Illinois Name: Edgewater Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Motoring Through Edgewater Indiana Name: Historical Society of Harrison County Nomination: for the Harrison County, Indiana Driving Tour Kansas Name: Overland Park Historical Society and Svadlenak Museum Consulting Nomination: for the exhibit Overland Park: A Place of Peace, Comfort, and Plenty Name: Franklin County Historical Society and Freedom s Frontier National Heritage Area Nomination: for the program Native Neighbors from Freedom s Frontier Past Kentucky Name: Kentucky Historical Society and Bridgeport Elementary School Nomination: for the HistorysmArts program Massachusetts Name: Worcester Revolution of 1774 Nomination: for the Worcester Revolution of 1774 project Name: #BostonBetter Nomination: for the exhibit Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial
Name: Marietta Mullen Nomination: for her dedication to preserving and interpreting the Mayflower II Name: The Preservation Collaborative, Inc. Nomination: for the program Industrial Eden: The Legacy of Haywardville Maryland Name: Jewish Museum of Maryland, Maryland Historical Society, and Minotaur Mazes Nomination: for the exhibit The A-Mazing Mendes Cohen Name: Maryland Historical Society Nomination: for the Stitching History Program Michigan Name: Detroit Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Built By the River Name: Edsel and Eleanor Ford House Nomination: for the exhibit Women Who Motor Minnesota Name: Carver County Historical Society, Wendy Petersen-Biorn, and Darlene Wendlandt Fasching Nomination: for the publication Two Wars on the Frontier Name: Carver County Historical Society Nomination: for the Carver County Historical Society s website redesign Name: Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County Nomination: for the exhibit Doing Our Part: Clay County in WWII Name: Minnesota Humanities Center and Minnesota Indian Affairs Council Nomination: for the project Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations Name: Greg Donofrio, Laurel Fritz, and Stearline Rucker Nomination: for the Arthur and Edith Lee House Project Missouri Name: Missouri History Museum, Charles E. Clagget, Jr., and Richard H. Weiss Nomination: for the publication Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights Name: Piper Memorial Medical Museum, St. Joseph Medical Center, and Svadlenak Museum Consulting
Nomination: for the exhibit Caring for Body, Mind, and Spirit: The Story of St. Joseph s Nurses Montana Name: Montana Historical Society Nomination: for the Montana Women s History Matters project North Dakota Name: State Historical Society of North Dakota Nomination: for the multimedia project North Dakota: People Living on the Land Name: LaDonna Tamakewaśtewiŋ Brave Bull Allard Nomination: for her leadership and effort to reclaim the narrative regarding the history of the Lakota/Dakota people New York Name: National September 11 Memorial and Museum Nomination: for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum Exhibition Name: Three Village Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Chicken Hill: A Community Lost to Time New Jersey Name: Tuckerton Seaport and Baymen s Museum Nomination: for their Community Museum Leads Community Recovery initiative Oklahoma Name: Chisolm Trail Museum Nomination: for the exhibit TG&Y: An Original Oklahoma Icon Pennsylvania Name: Brain L. Fitz and Kenneth Burkett Nomination: for the publication The Scripture Rocks: Why Douglas Stahlman Carved His Legacy in Stone Name: Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Nomination: for the exhibit The Big Graph Name: Senator John Heinz History Center Nomination: for The Civil War in Pennsylvania traveling exhibit Name: Betsy Ross House Nomination: for the project Dressing the Bed: a Living Demonstration of 18th Century Needlework Rhode Island Name: Jenks Society for Lost Museums Nomination: for the exhibit Jenks Society for Lost Museums This nomination is also the recipient of a HIP (History in Progress) Award.
South Carolina Name: Historic Columbia Nomination: for the Woodrow Wilson Family Home: A Museum of Reconstruction in Columbia and Richland County Tennessee Name: Andrew Jackson Foundation Nomination: for the exhibit Andrew Jackson: Born for a Storm Name: Tennessee State Museum Nomination: for the Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation exhibit and associated programming Name: Tennessee War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission Nomination: for the Tennessee War of 1812 Bicentennial Projects Texas Name: The Bullock Texas State History Museum Nomination: for the exhibit La Belle: The Ship that Changed History Vermont Name: James Sanborn Davidson Nomination: for his lifelong dedication to preserving and interpreting the history of Rutland, Vermont Virginia Name: Preservation Virginia Nomination: for the Tobacco Barns Preservation Project Washington Name: Washington State Historical Society and Lorraine McConaghy Nomination: for the project Civil War Pathways in the Pacific Northwest Wisconsin Name: History Museum at the Castle and African Heritage, Inc. Nomination: for the project A Stone of Hope: Black Experiences in the Fox Cities Name: Colleen Bradford Krantz and Clark Kidder Nomination: for the documentary West by Orphan Train Name: Jewish Museum Milwaukee Nomination: for the exhibit Stitching History from the Holocaust This nomination is also the recipient of a HIP (History in Progress) Award.
Wyoming Name: Jackson Hole Historical Center and Museum Nomination: for the project The Last Homestead Name: Richard G. Ewig Nomination: for a lifetime of preserving, interpreting, and championing the history of the state of Wyoming